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Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 8/20/2008
Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats
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Last month The Ticket wrote about officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city's downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to ...

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RedState: Conservative News and Community:  BREAKING NEWS: Obama campaign caught lying about free tickets to convention speech.

Sister Toldjah:  From hiding the homeless in Denver to giving them haircuts

Little Green Footballs:  Haircuts for the Homeless

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BREAKING NEWS: Obama campaign caught lying about free tickets to convention speech.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... In other news, the Democrats, instead of doing the whole "teach a man to fish" thing with the Denver homeless, have opted to give the homeless free haircuts so everyone is pretty and photogenic (including the homeless!!!!) in Denver. ...

From hiding the homeless in Denver to giving them haircuts
Sister Toldjah — LOL.  Gotta love it: Last month The Ticket wrote that officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city’s downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to the zoo and Museum of Nature and Science. Now, with a Hat Tip to our pal ...

Haircuts for the Homeless
Little Green Footballs — ... For one short week, the city of Denver will have the best-coiffed homeless population in America: Denver’s homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats. ...

Isn't This What the Chinese Did Before the Olympics
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, August 20, 2008 [image] Isn't This What the Chinese Did Before the Olympics [ Jonah Goldberg ] Denver officials spiff-up their homeless with free haircuts. 08/20 11:54 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.016023 seconds. ...

Exclusive Photo: Denver offers Haircuts for the Homeless
Doug Ross @ Journal — The LA Times reports that Denver’s homeless are getting free haircuts to look good for Obama and the Democratic National Convention (via ...

DNC To The Homeless In Denver: Get A Free Haircut, You Bums
Pirate's Cove — ... In what seems to be a recurring theme for Denver as we approach the Democrat convention, they are still working to clean up the homeless. You know when the LA Times comes up with a headline reading Denver’s homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats, things are not happy in the relationship between the DNC and the Credentialed Media ...

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They need to look spiffy for the Democratic Convention in case they don't use the free zoo and movie tickets to get out of the way: CBS4 Denver reports Sly's Salon in Denver is providing free haircuts to the homeless in advance of the Democratic Convention. The effort was organized by Denver Human Services. It seems to be a first -- don't move the homeless, clean them up. That was the ...
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Democrats in Denver figure why feed the homeless when you can give them stylish haircuts . When Sylvester and Ghandia Johnson saw news reports about homeless people being given vouchers to the zoo and the movies during the DNC, they didn't feel it was right. "We just kind of felt like in news reports lately it was like, 'What are we going to do with them,' trying to sweep them under the ...